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Tuesday, 28 April 2015

The week before the term break we had no regular DLT session but a special campus walkabout. We visited Tom who is a music lecturer at EIT. He showed us the music facilities and digital technologies he uses in this environment. For example he can access every student's computer an project the screen on the wall for everyone to see. According to him, everyone benefits from it as problems can be solved quickly and easily without walking through the room all the time.

Tom (obscured) tells us about his job outside of the lecture room

Inside there are lots of Macs with actual keyboards (the instruments!) attached

This screening software has various strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths:
-Easy and quick remote problem solving by the teacher
-No need to run around class all the time
-Share the issues with other students who might have the same problem
-Everyone can participate in the problem-solving process
-Teacher is able to monitor student's activites and assess them individually

Threats:
-Privacy issues might occur
-Teacher may have too much power of the students
-Access by unauthorized persons

When designing learning for remote participation there are many opportunities but one has to be aware of the threats and weaknesses, too.

Most modern learning technologies can enhance the learning and teaching experience, but only if used correctly. Adobe Connect for example is used regularly in the DLT class and works fairly well however it always takes some time so set everything up and if you do not have the appropriate hardware, the software's potential can not be fully used.

In the DLT class the sound quality is rather bad, a better microphone or headset could easily help but is not always available. The more complex and more useful technologies go often hand in hand with higher requirements in terms of hardware and technical understanding.

Sunday, 26 April 2015

I often use Google Docs to facilitate digital learning, its an online cloud platform that has its hooks in all of the mainstream device types like Android, Mac and PC. This online cloud platform is designed for file hosting and office productivity type activities.An example of use is working on an assignment with your peers at the same time, anytime one person makes a change to the document it is immediately saved and updated to anyone else viewing or editing the document.Strengths of using Google Docs as a digital learning technology:

Collaboration capabilities, sharing work in one easy to manage place.

Everyone can see whats happening easily.

Easy sharing of large files.

High compatibility with devices = high accessibility.

Weaknesses of using Google Docs and a digital learning technology:

Sharing is an all or nothing policy if you allow editing meaning some one could mess up the document and you have to fix it wasting time if its a regular thing.

Ease of access means ease of plagiarism.

Needing to have people's emails to allow them to edit.

Opportunities using Google Docs as a digital learning technology:

Could be used to easily give students access to a chunk of files without having to host them on EITOnline which is a very slow service.

The spreadsheet function could be used to keep track of students and allow them to check off their own work in the spreadsheet, this could be used to help the student keep up and the lecturer to understand where everyone is up to.

Threats of using Google Docs as a digital learning technology:

Google could take ownership of your files via some bogus terms of service.

Your files could be lost.

Your google account could be hacked/stolen.

Considerations when using google Docs.

You need to be connected to the internet to take advantage of Google Docs completely, there are apps that allow you to create documents while offline but if some one else has edited to document online while you were editing offline you can run into issues, this isnt an issue if you just stay connected.

Saturday, 25 April 2015

For writing and producing music, I utilise
YouTube for instructional videos to figure out how to do things things like how to
tune an instrument or how does a guitarist get a certain tone from an amplifier.
The main part of music production which I use YouTube for is instructional
videos on how to complete tasks and what techniques to use to produce music
using FL Studio, a music production suite. YouTube has a wealth of
instructional videos for FL Studio from professional and amateur
users. Every task and technique needed to successfully complete a musical
project using FL Studio is covered by multiple YouTube videos. But it does have
its drawbacks…

Strengths:

The answer to a question is available
immediately.

The visual medium is easy to absorb.

The visual medium means people can use screen capture technology and show you
how to execute a technique.

If there are multiple ways of doing something and a certain video doesn’t cover
a technique, you can simply find another video.

Image-Line, the company that produced FL studio, have their own channel, with professional
techniques and answers to many common questions.

There are lots of professionals and quality amateur videos with clear
instruction

Weaknesses:

Some videos use obscure techniques and you have to research which technique
to use.

Some videos are of such poor quality, they are unwatchable.

Common mistakes made are: Poor audio, poor lighting and low resolution (which is especially bad when using screen captured videos)

Low resolution

There are so many videos to pick from and it can take some time to find a good
quality one with the easiest technique

Opportunities:

Image-Line could make their own playlists with quality videos only.

A full FL studio visual manual (this would be quite an ambitious project but it
could greatly increase FL Studios audience).

Threats:

YouTube may start requiring payment to have an account.

Users being put off by poor quality, unhelpful videos.

Users not using it because they aren't sure how to find the video they're after.

Users seeking alternative video streaming sites.

Finding the correct video with the
easiest solution can be difficult. A user needs to consider the fact that
anyone can upload an instructional video and there are some really poor videos
on YouTube. Some handy tips for getting the best out of YouTube for instructional
videos is to subscribe to official or professional YouTube channels as they are
very reliable with their content. Another tip is to find blogs which discuss
issues and techniques for FL Studio and they will often link you to a YouTube
clip solving the problem.

Our Digital Learning Technologies class met the music class tutor in the music lab. The class was filled with digital technologies, it had Mac computers along with music keyboards not the usual computer qwerty keyboard. The class also has a projector where Tom the music lecturer has on where he can show the students screens in front of the class. I have learn't a lot from this and how they share and collaborate, form a band and mix some music. The tutor can easily look at a students work and look at what the student is doing.

Below is a couple of photos I have taken in the music lab.

This photo shows the front of the room with the projector.

Here is a photo of the Mac computer with the keyboard.

Strengths:

Share students work to the class

Easy teaching

Monitor students progress

Can take control of students consoles

Block contents

Can share interesting things with students

Simple to learn to use

Weaknesses:

Privacy of a student

Amount of storage is limited

The is a yearly subscription fee

The internet is needed

Tutor can interrupt students anytime while they are working

Opportunities:

Having access to multiple consoles

Can easily share with the class

Teaching is much more simpler

Threats:

The amount of students can be large to handle

The control over students

Can see what students are doing (eg Facebook "Oh that student has a nice gf")

Considerations when designing learning for remote participation are:

Not all students are in class or by a computer outside of class so recording a session will be a good option. This way a student can go and watch what they missed in class or go over it again if they have memory problems.

A good connection with internet is handy. If you have a slow bad internet nothing can be done at a feasible level. So a good connection is a wise choice for teaching in a digital environment.

Sometimes audio/video can be a problem at either end. It is important to let each other know how to solve the issue. Again recording the session can solve the issue for the student to view again to catch what was missed. Students can reply in the chat if the issue is fixed.

Friday, 24 April 2015

It was a great experience, we
went to Music Studio with Full class of DLT. It was our "campus
walkabout" tour. During the tour Tom who is the teacher of the idealschool,
share with us their teaching technique. They are using “Insight” software by
Faronics. It is a classroom management software. For more details about Insight
please check this video.

Strengths:

Easy to teach. (Remote access)

Monitor the students learning
activities

Block websites and contents

Support multimedia

Weaknesses:

Privacy issues

Yearly subscription fees

Storage limitation

Opportunities:

Sharing system

Access the previous lesson from
backup storage

Threats:

Student limited access

Computer knowledge

When we are prepare a learning
method with remote participation that time we have to focus some important
issues:

Internet connection (If the
remote access over the internet that time we need good internet connection for
all user)

Thursday, 23 April 2015

On Thursday 2nd April the DLT class began with a presentation by Charlene, an intern from the Educational Development Centre (EDC) at EIT, who covered the wide range of subject areas worked on at the EDC - e.g. Applied Science, Nursing and Teaching and the importance of knowing HTML for managing learning resources.
With Michael and Steph managing the technology to stream the experience to distributed students using Adobe Connect, the class went nomadic to visit the music studio at the ideaschool at EIT used by students doing the Certificate of Contemporary Music Performance.

Students, teachers and technology transitioning into the music studio

The ideaschool teacher, Tom, had a few students working on their consoles in class and generously hosted the DLT class in the studio to demonstrate the learning technology and the environment. The studio is equipped with the Faronics Insight learning management system with an instructors console, large digital display screen and student workstations with electronic keyboards and Mac desktops.

Faronics Insight supplies a digital collaborative learning option with electronic communication between teachers and students in addition to face-to-face communication in the studio. Teachers can instruct, help, oversee and communicate with connected students, individually or as a group, from the teacher's computer. Faronics Insight controls access to the web by students, reducing online distractions from messages, web-surfing or games.

Meta Learning - Music studio and DLT in action.. Music student (foreground) on musical composition; Teacher (background) at the main Faronics Insight console with class display screen behind. BYOD invasion!

The studio is set out with workstations and with separate work tables for group collaboration for composing and playing instruments.

Some considerationswhen designing learning for remote participation
When designing learning for remote participation, the technologies, usually multiple/layers of technology (power sources, software, computers, cameras, microphones), have to be available and operational. The technologies have to work effectively for both the teacher and learner i.e. good audio and visual quality and high speed of transfer of quality information so as not to detract from the learning experience. Optional, secondary resources need to be prepared to backup and cover in the event of failure in any part of the technology chain.
As well as designing course material and assessments appropriate for both face-to-face and distributed learners, the learning design and preparation needs to cover the increased demands of teaching across two channels at the same time. Preparation is required for two audiences, presented in one integrated session, with video recording for later viewing available. The time demands, workload and variables are significantly increased over a standard face to face delivery to a class, which is taxing on the teacher. The teacher must be skilled (and preferably at expert level) across all domains: pedagogy, instructional design, the subject material to be presented, the technology used for delivery and managing two audiences before, during and after delivery. Solutions to manage the workload include teaching assistance with the audience(s), technical assistance to set-up and troubleshoot the technology; administration assistance (or automation) to complete class attendance records and assistance with instructional design and implementation.

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Week 7: Instructional Design
Model

Reflection,
Learning Technologies @ EIT

Assessed
Activity 7.1 (2015)

During the campus
walkout we visited the musical class in EIT. Their Michel introduced Tom who is
tutor in EIT music department. The tom introduced some of the tools and
software used by musical department and he explained the working of tools and
software. The musical department is using software called insight for teaching
purpose also they are using apple desktops. Every musical instrument is connected
to the desktops and and these desktops are networked together. This insight
software is product of “faronics”. And this is an awesome experience to become
a part of campus walk out.

EIT have to Pay money for renewing the licence
for this learning Software.

Traditional
way of learning music expense is low when compared to this digitalised way
because of too much IT infrastructure and software involved.

OPPORTUNITIES

This
software promotes a better participation of student in class room.

Everyone
can access their own activity by recording the music.

Treats

An
updated version of this software with new functionality will force the Organization to buy it. Because the students and tutors are more familiar with
this product.

Changing this familiar software will put the
department in difficulty.

Any
weakness in this software design will cause more trouble to the users.

Any way this software
is good product for learning the music.

Remote participation is
good option for those who are not able to attend the class. In case if a
student is hospitalized or taking rest in home due to illness they can attend
the class through online. It is better to record the section those who failed
to attend the by accident. The adobe connect is a better software for recording
the teaching section. Use good hardware for better resolution and good sound
for example webcam integrated with mic (microphone). Those who have poor
internet connection can download the section and can watch it later.